North Dakota’s most famous fictional character turns 100

North Dakota’s most famous fictional character turns 100

You’ve no doubt seen the meme featuring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, raising a champagne glass at an extravagant Long Island party. Handsome and suave, with clear blue eyes and wavy blond hair, he embodies the elegance and sophistication of the 1920s — worlds away from a desolate farm in rural North Dakota. But that is precisely where Gatsby’s story began — not within the novel’s timeline, but in the imagination of author F. Scott Fitzgeral…